Character sheet for Fire Punch.
Beware of spoilers
Main Characters
Agni
Agni / Fire Punch
Blessing - Regeneration
The protagonist of Fire Punch. Agni is a Blessed who was living in a small village with his younger sister Luna before it was burned down by a man named Doma for engaging in cannibalism, killing all the villagers including Luna. The Sole Survivor of the massacre and his body forever in flames, Agni sets out on a mission to find and kill the man himself.
- Anti-Hero: Agni causes a LOT of collateral damage over the course of his attempts at revenge. Many innocent people die because of him and humanity in general might have been better off if he hadn't survived his village being burned down. Eventually he does come to realize how much damage he has caused in the name of revenge, and he is horrified by it.
- Brother–Sister Incest: In the first chapter, Luna attempts to seduce Agni and offers to bear his child. Agni refuses in disgust but his Dying Dream (where he and Luna are living happily with their child) and later chapters shows that he reciprocated these feelings. It turns out Agni had sexual feelings for his sister even when she was still alive, possibly due to being the only girl anywhere near his age in their village (everyone else was elderly).
- The Dreaded: After Agni murders Daida with his "Fire Punch," the other Behemdolg soldiers begin to fear Agni as a god-like being.Uroy: Why don't you just shoot?! If you're met with resistance, just shoot! They're firewood!Soldier 1: But killing them...Soldier 2: A-Are you sure we should be killing them? That flaming devil... will punish us with his fire punch.Uroy: Fire punch?!
- Driven to Suicide: After Agni's flames finally go out, he is taken in by a group of women. Noting that he is very strong, one of them who blames Fire Punch for everything from killing their friends (which he did) and causing her to get raped and impregnated by Behemdolg asks Agni to find and kill Fire Punch not knowing Agni IS Fire Punch. Agni agrees and repeatedly attempts to take his life while away from the others. However, his super regeneration stops him from succeeding.
- Enemy Within: When Agni suddenly gets a vision of Luna asking him to resume the revenge, a "monster" takes over him and goes back to Burn the Orphanage. By the time he comes to his senses it's already too late. Later it happens again, but Agni deliberately lets the Fire Punch persona take over him, and his face has a more skull-like appearance while he's in this state.
- Full-Frontal Assault: After being burned alive, Agni almost never wears clothing. The only times he wears clothes in the series after becoming engulfed in fire is when wearing Togata's fireproof costume for him and when his flames are extinguished.
- Idiot Hero: Agni is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Justified in that even though physically he is in his 20s, mentally he is still a 14 year old child, as he spent 8 years burning alone in the middle of nowhere, and even before everything happened, education wasn't exactly something he had access to, living in a frozen over village with survival being the most pressing matter.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Since Agni can regenerate body parts really quickly, he encourages cannibalism of himself among starving people.
- Immortality Hurts: He still feels pain like anyone else. Or used to at least. After being set on fire, the pain was so crippling it took him 8 years of burning alone in the middle of nowhere before he was able to regain control of his faculties.
- And later in the story, after his flames have been extinguished and he is rather suicidal, he finds he cannot even kill himself since any wound he gives himself will just heal too fast.
- Meaningful Name: Agni is the name of the Hindu god of fire. The main character Agni spends the bulk of the story perpetually on fire. He even gets a cult started around him later in the story who hail him as a god.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Though he wishes he wasn't, Agni is nearly invincible. No matter what happens to him, he will eventually regenerate. Even decapitation won't keep him down forever.
- Playing with Fire: After being incinerated by Doma, the ever-burning flames in tandem with his incredibly Healing Factor means that he's essentially a Human Weapon whose touch spreads the flame to others.
- Red Baron: "Fire Punch" is the name given by his followers.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Agni's main motivation, first to kill Doma for killing his sister and anyone who stands in his way, then the Ice Witch as well for causing this mess to begin with.
- Sanity Slippage: Agni's sanity has been slipping ever since he got set on fire, but it finally completely snaps after his flames somehow vanish and Judah that looks exactly like his sister loses her memories again. Agni convinces her and then himself that she is really his sister Luna. Then he goes completely suicidal as he guilt-trips himself while also being overprotective of Judah.
- The Un-Smile: Has a fairly nasty one after convincing himself into believing the amnesiac Judah is his sister, Luna.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: Meeting with Doma face-to-face makes Agni understand that a long time has passed and they both have people they protect, and Luna wouldn't want this. Agni becoming a Death Seeker also helps. It doesn't last.
- Villain Protagonist: He straddles the line for much of the manga, though the moment where he seems to cross it is when he burns down a repentant Doma's home, killing not only him but all the children under his care. Togata even notes earlier, that in a movie, a hero who kills children is likely to have the audience turn against him. He does have a Heel Realization after this, and has become very suicidal ever since, which is rough considering all his suicide attempts fail due to his regeneration powers. The trope later is played straight when Agni starts to think that Judoh is sister and everyone tries to take her away from him, so he may as well stop acting like a hero.
Togata (Unmarked Spoilers)
Togata
Blessing - Regeneration
A movie buff and self-proclaimed director who dreams of making a movie. Upon seeing Agni in action, he decides to make him his star in his film. While initially presented as a woman, it's revealed in Chapter 36 that Togata is a transgender man.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He responds this way when Agni says he wishes he had an older sister like Togata, before meekly correcting an saying that older brother would be more accurate.Togata: I hate that kind of kid-glove treatment too.
- Easy Sex Change: Averted. Togata's regeneration means that any attempts at a sex change operation never stick.
- Healing Factor: Togata's regenerative Blessing is one of the most powerful in the cast, and is comparable to Agni. However, unlike Agni, Togata is unable to regenerate through Doma's flames.
- Manic Pixie Dream Guy: Deconstructed. Togata is the catalyst for Agni getting into several conflicts via spurring him towards action and acts in an incredibly eccentric manner, but much of this behavior is a front that he puts on to compensate for his inability to present how he really wants to.
- Really 700 Years Old: Despite his appearance, he actually around 300 years old.
- Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: When Bat Man uses his ability to read souls, he identifies Togata as a man living in a woman's body. Based on Togata's reaction, he did not want that to be known.
- The Movie Buff: Togata is a huge fan of movies. In his introductory chapter, he references Star Wars and Home Alone, and his stated goal is to direct a movie starring Agni.
- Trans Tribulations: Togata's inability to truly present as male is the core of his angst. He's unable to receive a sex change operation due to his regenerative abilities, and he's envious of Agni's hunk physique and masculine presentation.
Judah
Judah / "Luna"
Blessing - Regeneration
A high-ranking member of Behemdolg's army who bears a striking resemblance to Agni's sister Luna.
- Broken Bird: Having to keep up the facade as a servant of a madeup God since childhood has left her jaded, cynical and suicidal. Once Agni destroys Behemdolg, she uses the opportunity to try and touch his flames to finally die but to no avail.
- Death of Personality: After Agni destroys the World Tree and his flames are extinguished, Judah suffers Identity Amnesia and loses their memories of how they were as the leader of Behemdolg. This leads to Agni supplanting her identity with that of his dead sister, Luna.
- Death Seeker: It becomes clear that years of lying to the people of Behemdolg has left her wishing to die as she cannot keep up the facade any longer.
- The Dragon: Sulya brainwashes Judah to become the one for her, though it doesn't last.
- False Prophet: Judah pretends to hear the voice of God and makes up stories of a god-like human simply referred to as their "King" in order to unite humanity.
- Healing Factor: Judah, like several other characters, has the Blessing of Regeneration.
- Identical Stranger: Bears a striking resemblence to Agni's deceased sister Luna. She also closely resembles Sulya, with both of them apparently having been born from an evolved race of humans.
- Off with Her Head!: Suffers this fate three times. Twice at the hands of Togata, and then once at the hands of Sulya.
- Replacement Goldfish: After losing her identity, she ends up taking on the false identity of Agni's sister, Luna, and becomes this for Agni.
Sun
Sun
Blessing - Electricity
A young boy that accompanies Agni after he saves a group of prisoners he was apart of. Ten years later, he created and leads a cult in honor of Agni but is willing to go through extreme lengths to reunite with his hero.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Tagalong Kid. Sun follows Agni because he saved his life and has nothing but undying faith in him. Agni rightfully tells him to not go with him. This faith gets him almost raped by a dog, his feet cut off, used as a living battery and his devotion turns into manic religious worship in the Time Skip. By the end of the story, he becomes the True Final Boss Agni has to face. Both have come so far that neither even recognize each other anymore and Agni ends up remorselessly incinerating Sun.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Sun, the little kid Agni saves at the beginning, spends the majority of the manga as a generally helpless child who eventually gets his legs cut off and has to be saved from a life of using his weak electricity powers to power a city. Basically all he has is his love and faith in Agni, the man who saved him time and again. 10 years later after Agni went missing, Sun, now an adult with fancy prosthetic limbs and much better control on his electricity powers, is the de facto head of the cult dedicated to Agni who is capable of cutting off limbs with extreme ease and able to launch himself very large distances with his legs. He has also gone a bit insane from his dedication to Agni.
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: Sun was just an idealistic Distressed Dude with electric powers that hardly count as a stungun. After the timeskip he became a Lightning Bruiser and delusional leader of the city.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Sun tries to kill Judah for recieving more Agni's love than him.
Behemdolg
In General
Doma
Doma
Click here to see him pre-timeskip
Blessing - Incineration
A Behemdolg soldier that burned down Agni's village, killing the rest of the village's inhabitants including Luna, and the man responsible for Agni's current state. By the time Agni finds him however, he has since long retired from the military due to mental illness and seeks Agni's forgiveness.
- Anti-Villain: He destroyed the village because he learned they were eating human arms and presumed them to be dangerous, not knowing that they were Agni and Luna's regenerating arms. He then is truly apologetic about what happened to Agni and later was taking care of a group of women and children.
- Broken Ace: Years of killing in the name of Behemdolg only to realize he was lied to leaves him disillusioned and is the partial reason why he retires from the army entirely.
- Create Your Own Hero: Literally every event in the series is caused by Doma (and by extension Judah) killing Luna. They understand this.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Doma discovers that the teachings of Behemdolg are fake and he killed people for false reasons. He quits the military and starts an orphanage. He still doesn't think burning Agni's village for cannibalism was wrong though, but apologizes for it anyway. Then Agni reflects on what has he been doing recently.
Uroy
Daida
Daida
Blessing - Strength
A Blessed imprisoned in Behemdolg that possesses the Blessing of Strength. He killed several women who weren't slaves as well as murdering thirty soldiers.- The Brute: Has the look and has Super-Strength.
- Megaton Punch: Daida's punches are powerful enough to knock Agni miles away.
- Powered Armor: Daida enters the fight with Agni wearing a powersuit that was used "in the old days," provided by Togata. It allows Daida to tank a few hits from Agni and allows him to punch Agni through many buildings.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Get's one punched into flames a few chapters after his introduction.
- Would Hit a Girl: He is said to have murdered several women that weren't slaves.
Caloo
Caloo
Blessing - Flight
A Blessed imprisoned in Behemdolg with the Blessing of Flight. He shaved off the faces of seventeen children just for fun.- Dirty Coward: Opting to not fight Agni, he immediately leaves Behemdolg during the chaos only to be killed off instantly by Bat Man.
- For the Evulz: His main reason for why he committed his crime.
- The Unfought: Does not fight Agni since he immediately leaves after Behemdolg's destruction, only to get whacked to death in the face by an incoming bat.
- Spell My Name With An S: His name is sometimes spelled as "Kalou" in other translations.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets quickly killed off suddenly by Bat Man after escaping Behemdolg.
- Would Hurt a Child: He is said to have carved off the faces of seventeen children just for the hell of it.
Fugaitai
Fugaitai
Blessing - Iron Manipulation
A Blessed imprisoned in Behemdolg with the Blessing of Iron Manipulation. He killed hundreds of soldiers attempting to take over Behemdolg.Others
Luna
Bat Man
Bat Man
Blessing - Telepathy
No, not that Batman. A bat-wielding masked man who follows Agni as a god. Spear Lady
Spear Lady
A mysterious English-speaking woman who wields a spear in battle and a follower of Agni. The Ice Witch (Spoilers)
Sulya
Blessing - Regeneration (formerly), Cryokinesis
A mysterious entity that supposedly froze Earth in a Endless Winter. In truth, the Ice Witch doesn't exist, her true name is Sulya and she took the title because the seat was vacant. Her true plan is to turn Judah into a World Tree to reheat the earth and sacrificing every living person on the planet to restart humanity... and to see what the cancelled Star Wars film would've been.
- Death by Irony: Sulya, mastermind of the "world-saving" plan to turn Judah into a tree and stabilize the nanomachines, is killed by Sun for being faithless. Having lost her regeneration powers from trying the process on herself, she couldn’t come back. Then Judah does exaclty what Sulya wanted, but she's not there to see it.
- Didn't Think This Through: Sulya stayed in Sun's group while Agni was absent and was planning to use them against Agni and take Judah for herself. Sun is so devoted to him, not only does he respond with Off with His Head! the moment he hears about it, he wants to burn Judah and damn humanity with it.
- Evil Counterpart: To Togata. Both of them are movie addicts and Manipulative Bastards, but while Togata wants Agni to be The Hero "because that's what the viewers would like", Sulya views Agni as a villain that killed a lot of people for selfish reasons and has to die miserably "because that's what villains do".
- Evil Plan: Well, possibly anti-villainous plan. Sulya, the immortal girl who decides to call herself the Ice Witch says that soon an ice age will kill all life on earth, but she has a plan to basically restart life on earth by sacrificing everyone who is still alive, even in outer space. Except for her. Her main motivation for doing this is so humanity will one day reach the point in civilization where humanity was before the ice age struck so that she can finally watch the last Star Wars movie whose production got canceled because of the ice age.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Everything that is wrong with the world currently is due to the Ice Witch that caused the world to freeze over. Except there is no Ice Witch; according to Togata the world is simply entering a new ice age, while Sulya claimed it was caused by failed nanomachines that was meant to give people superpowers. Sulya decides to take the spot since it's vacant.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Sura? Surya? Sulya?
- The Movie Buff: Turns out to be one and the entire reason why she wants to restart humanity is to create a full-fledged civilization again so she can finally see new Star Wars to be produced, since the apocalypse is in the way.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Sulya wanted to use Judah for her own needs since she can't to it herself, but since Judah is deep inside Behemdolg she couldn't do anything. Agni wrecking the place became a convinient opportunity. Later she sends some of Sun's group after Agni to retrieve Judah from him, though she dies before the climax.
- Offstage Villainy: While Agni was busy with Doma, Sulya and Judah went ahead with the World Tree plan and attacked his followers.
- Restart the World: Sulya's goal. It's a case of Skewed Priorities as she just wants to go to cinema again, but it's better than what is there currently.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Sulya wasn't good in the first place, but she becomes a Card-Carrying Villain since everyone blames the Ice Witch for everything, she decides to claim the name to keep Agni motivated.
